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Shortlisted for The Creative Future Writers’ Award
When I checked my email this morning, I was delighted to find a message from Matt Freidson at Creative Future letting me know that I had been shortlisted in the poetry category for this year’s Creative Future Writers’ Award. The judges were Nancy Campbell, Courttia Newland, and Kieran Yates. Nancy Campbell says this about the… Continue reading
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New poem published in aswirl issue 15
I’m very pleased to say that my poem “Combing” is in issue 15 of aswirl. You can buy issue 15 here and visit aswirl’s home page here. While the print version is handmade, digital copies are also available. The poem itself was inspired by a few months spent living in the Cotswolds. Because of the… Continue reading
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Pet pictures
Having accepted the fact that my cat allergy rules out cats, my variable energy rules out dogs, and I am already the Chief Provider of Bath for the local pigeons, I have resigned myself to plants. There are two families of pigeon fanciers in my local area and an energetic fellow who keeps hawks. He… Continue reading
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Madeleine L’Engle on fantasy and the open mind
‘Children respond to anything a writer asks of them-as long as there isn’t any wax [i.e. inauthenticity] around. It’s often possible to make demands of a child that couldn’t be made of an adult. Sometimes the very acquisition of knowledge (something quite different from wisdom) can hold us back. For instance, in some of the… Continue reading
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The Seafarer
The Seafarer is a poem from the Exeter Book, a 10th century codex of Old English which sprang from a project of monastic reform and restabilisation following a long period Viking attacks and the subsequent disrepair of Christian places and their spiritual practices. The poem is mostly secular with a religious addition, possibly added later,… Continue reading
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